“The tremendous gulf between the sexes yawned—and an abyss, terrifying and thrilling, sheer and black as the arbour in which they sat; a darkness wide, dangerous, imponderable and littered with the wrecks of broken bridges.”

—  Mervyn Peake

Source: Gormenghast (1950), Chapter 36 (p. 595)

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English writer, artist, poet and illustrator 1911–1968

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